Candidate Biography:

1856: Cofounder of the California Republican Party (one of 7)1861: Became one of four principal investors in the Central Pacific Railroad (with Mark Hopkins, Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford)1888-1897: Member, Regents of the University of California

The city of Deming [New Mexico] is named after Mary Crocker

Crocker was also the owner and founder of Crocker National Bank. It was a Crocker bank branch in Carmichael that was robbed by the Symbionese Liberation Army including Patty Hearst (great-granddaughter of George Hearst) in 1975. Interestingly, Hearst and Crocker served in the Assembly only five years apart.

PLACENAME: Crocker Park is located in Sacramento at 211 O Street.

Source: History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 by Winfield J. Davis (1893)